The key insight of Alexis de Tocqueville's Tocqueville on Democracy was that:
a. the most important thing about American democracy was that the majority of men could vote.
b. American democracy was really a sham.
c. American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
d. the ideology of the Whig Party was actually more democratic than that of the Democratic Party.
e. American democracy could not exist without strong presidential leadership.
Answer: c. American democracy really represented an important cultural shift.
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